CULVER CITY, CA.- Maxwell Alexander Gallery announce their one-man show of new paintings by contemporary artist, Logan Maxwell Hagege.
Logan Maxwell Hagege (pronounced Ah-jejj) was born and raised in Los Angeles. His classical training in fine art allowed him to depart from the formal Realism taught in school and to focus on modern design principles. He is known for his combination of techniques, focusing on contemporary Native Americans living in the Southwest. Hagege’s figures are situated proudly in stylized Southwestern landscapes, evoking contemporary standpoints while conjuring relics of the past. His signature clouds grace the majority of his works, which silhouette the angular figures and more pronounced features of his Native American subjects.
Hagege captures contemporary Native Americans as they live today and feels each painting is something of a self-portrait. His figures have a classic look which is fading in present day due to diets and lifestyle changes among many tribes. Most recently Hagege’s muse appeared in the Academy Award winning film, The Revenant.
Although Hagege is a Los Angeles native, his April 9th solo exhibition at Maxwell Alexander Gallery will be his first in LA. To mark the occasion, Hagege has created a mural sized 80”x 80” painting, which will include seven Native American figures and five horses set against the cliffs behind his Arizona home.
Earlier this year, Hagege received the 2016 Don B. Huntley Spirit of the West Award at the Masters of the American West Exhibition at The Autry Museum of the American West. A museum he visited as a child on school field trips, the Autry now houses three major works by Hagege in their permanent collection. Hagege credits the red rocks in Chatsworth, as well as childhood trips to the California Desert to visit his grandmother, as early inspirations for his art.
Today Hagege paints out of a 2,000 square foot studio in old Agoura Hills and splits his time between his mid-century home in Woodland Hills and a desert home in rural Arizona.
